An empirical study of an informal knowledge repository in a medium-sized software consulting company

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 84-92

  Dingsøyr, Torgeir ^a   Røyrvik, Emil ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INTRANETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ETHNOGRAPHY; INFORMAL KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TOOL;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038601763     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icse.2003.1201190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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